There is a six-way junction at the centre of Old Wives Lees. The green in the middle of the junction sees the village sign with hops and farming featuring.
The origin of the name of Old Wives Lees is not clear but in 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Old Wives Lees thus: "OLD-WIVES-LEES, or Oldwoods-Lees, a place in the N E of Kent; 4¼ miles S W of Canterbury. An annual race, on 19 May, by young maids and bachelors, was instituted here by Sir D. Digges of Chilham."
Maybe close in evolutionary terms to ostriches (both Struthioniformes), but these South American creatures are in a different family to the African ostriches. From the black on the neck I fancy these to be Greater Rhea (Rhea americana) from the east of South America. There is a Lessser Rhea (Pterocnemia pennata) to the south and west.